Psychology Unit 2

[StaticZ1011]

Hello guys,
I just joined psychology unit 2, is there any advice in doing well in psychology? as in remembering the definitions, does it have to be in exact words? etc because my friend who does psych 3 and 4 mentions that if i summarise the definition vcaa will lose deduct marks off your sacs and exams, if so what could i do to retain the information better

Thanks

[Bri MT]

Hey,  your teacher may have had particular experiences due to the style of how there teacher marks SACs but I didn't focus on learning exact definitions and found that it was far more important to focus on understanding.

VCAA does not expect you to remember exact words except for the definitions of EEG, EMG and ECG which are covered in unit 3&4.    If you do want to memorise content, making flashcards on your phone so you can practice while travelling etc. is very useful. For most people, teaching others content is a great way of checking that you understand the content and of ingraining it in your memory.  With psychology in particular, there are heaps of connections between topics; connecting different ideas with eachother also aids in remembering each of those ideas. Some people like to do this visually with mindmaps etc. but even just thinking about the connections can also help.


Hope you've found this useful

[peter.g15]

Hi!

i'm with miniturtle here ^ in that definitions and stating things word for word do not really matter for most things. I definitely tried to learn every definition last year, but you'll find that there are far far far too many and they won't be much help. What I did was to focus on learning the concepts, and this let me get a pretty good self definition for the terms.

However, if your school psych team places a lot of emphasis on definitions on sacs (not a very good choice for the school considering VCAA's question style now), it would be important in order to maximise your SAC scores. If you do this, focus on the important terms and the definitions of these and revise frequently and regularly!

Good luck